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Archive for January, 2010


Astaro will host partner events in US

Astaro has made a commitment to helping our partners grow their businesses. This is why we began offering our partner community advanced training sessions, implemented organizational and business process improvements and why we are hosting a series of events in the early part of 2010.

These events will feature information regarding Astaro's product roadmap, the security industry, competitive messaging information and technical demonstrations as well as an opportunity to network with other members of the Astaro partner community. The first two events will be held in Miami and Orlando on March 10th and 16th respectively.

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New Zero-Day exploit – Astaro blocks that!

Dan Goodwin recently reported that a new Internet Explorer exploit has been released into the wild. The exploit, known as CVE-2010-0249, attacks a known vulnerability in Internet Explorer and was most notably used to compromise Google. Luckily, networks with an Astaro Security Gateway are protected against this threat.

Astaro is connected to the Microsoft Active Protection Program and therefore it is possible for the product's IPS to recognize and block attacks before other vendors are able to do so.

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Astaro featured on MSPTV

On January 15th, Business Solutions magazine hosted a webinar featuring Jim Roddy, Business Solutions, president and Gennifer Biggs, security storage and managed services editor.

The webinar, titled: “Products To Leverage For Your Own Economic Recovery“, discussed pitfalls to avoid in the economic recovery, product financing support for IT companies ramping up for the recovery and basic business advice for 2010.

The webinar featured a guest speaker, Astaro partner Dean Wescott, CMO of Kincaid Network Solutions. During his segment, Dean discussed his experiences leveraging the Astaro Security Gateway Essential Firewall Edition and how it will help VARs and managed services security providers gain momentum in 2010.

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Application Delivery: Virtualization Options For Cloud Computing

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See all of A10 Networks’ videos at www.a10networks.com As Cloud Computing adoption increases, virtualization is a key enabler, driving economies of scale and the ability to scale with hardware appliances or commodity hardware. Based on A10′s award-winning AX Series Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) and Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS) architecture, enterprises and service providers will have the flexibility to choose the following scale-as-you-grow virtualization options.

You Can Learn More About the A10 Networks’ Product Line By Going to www.LoadBalancerSolutions.com/A10-Networks

The original article/video can be found at Application Delivery: Virtualization Options For Cloud Computing

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Programs learn to play in their own sandbox

Among all of the New Year's normal ebb and flow, predictions for the upcoming year are ubiquitous. More than a couple of these predictions proclaim that 2010 will be “The Year of the Sandbox”. While I think this is a sensationalist way of putting it and that it would be hard to pin down any timeframe for such a technology to become the norm, I do agree that the sandboxing of processes is becoming popular.

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Radiant Systems Loves the WatchGuard XTM 1050

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Business leader in the point of sale technology industry, Radiant Technologies provides retail and hospitality businesses of all sizes with innovative, easy to use technology that allows their customers to grow their top line. Radiant redefines the customer experience and enhances revenue drivers. With growth in their future, adherence to strict regulatory compliance a must, and customer demands that include the best in performance and network security, Radiant deployed four WatchGuard XTM 1050 devices in their data center. Read this case study to find out how the WatchGuard XTM 1050 helped double their connections and triple their capacity, while making growth a reality and compliance a snap.

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Basic Security tips part 3 – update your software

It has become more and more difficult to identify malicious links and content on the Internet. URL shortners, ads on legitimate websites , virus downloads posing as anti-virus software and of course fake e-cards all make it harder to know where you should and should not click Having a strong network security product in place will of course prevent the installation of malicious code on our computer even if you click on one of these links.

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